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After the Steam beta went public the Steam directory was changed from $HOME to $HOME/.local/share/Steam. You might want to try uninstalling your current Steam installation and re-installing from the USC.

Shouldn't this be a comment instead of an answer?
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Jop V.May 4 '13 at 16:54

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I'll try this. If this works, it's good as an answer.
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Exeleration-GMay 4 '13 at 19:37

I just removed the Steam version that I downloaded from Valve's website, and installed Steam from the Ubuntu repositories by typing sudo apt-get install steam. No files showed up in my home directory. Thanks!
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Exeleration-GMay 4 '13 at 19:47

if you create a .hidden file with each of those names in it (1 line each) they will not be displayed in nautilus (ubuntu's default file manager) unless you set it to show hidden files, i am sure you can delete the install ones but i am not sure about the rest
** does not work in thunar bug 110521

Hey, thanks. That's a nice solution, and I'm using it right now. But as this solution hides the pollution instead of really removing it (for instance, ls still shows the files), I will not set this as the final answer for a while. I hope you can understand this.
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Exeleration-GMay 4 '13 at 13:23

I do, it is just a workaround, there is more than that in ~/ run ls -a ~/ and you will see all the hidden files/folders, you can try moving the files and see if steam breaks/recreates them
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GM-Script-Writer-62850May 4 '13 at 14:42

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It is important to note that the .hidden file currently is only read by Nautilus. All other file managers, not only Thunar, don't work with it.
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GlutanimateMay 4 '13 at 16:38